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#1 Trump Administration Cuts ACA Coverage for 750,000 People It Says Were ‘Fraudulently’ Enrolled - Berkeley Lovelace Jr. for NBC News, JD Vance/Dr. Oz CMS, Jesse Watters, Steve Forbes, and Rep. Mike Levin on X
The Trump administration is removing hundreds of thousands of enrollees from Affordable Care Act plans, claiming that many were receiving subsidies they didn’t qualify for and that some did not even exist. The announcement is the latest effort by the administration to argue that fraud has inflated ACA enrollment, even as experts question the scale of the alleged fraud. Vice President JD Vance and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz — who have teamed up on a broader push to root out fraud in government health programs — said Tuesday that roughly 750,000 people have had their ACA coverage canceled. The administration did not provide details about who lost coverage or how those individuals were informed. The cuts, Vance said, would save U.S. taxpayers $2.2 billion...
#2 US Government Seeks to Join Elon Musk in Challenge Against EU’s Fine on X - Kanishka Singh for Reuters/The Verge, DogeDesigner, Eric Daugherty, Ayaan Hirsi Ali/
Restoring the West, Right Scope, and DOJ Civil Division on X
Trump officials filed a motion to support X’s appeal, arguing the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) enforcement overreached when levying the fine last December, and unfairly targets American tech platforms while threatening digital free speech and global market operations. “The European Commission inappropriately attempted to expand its regulatory authority to reach American companies not present or operating within its jurisdiction.”
#3 Ex-Trump Official Alina Habba to Marry Turkish Billionaire - Victor Nava for New York Post, SMB Attorney/Spencer Hakimian, Ron Filipowski, Anthony Cabassa/Daily Mail, New York Post, and Paul Rudnick on X
Alina Habba, the former acting New Jersey US attorney and one-time personal lawyer for President Trump, is reportedly engaged to a Turkish billionaire 13 years her junior. Habba, 42, is set to wed Turhan Mildon, 29, at an undisclosed location on Saturday, The Correspondent, an independent news outlet, first reported on Tuesday. Mildon is the CEO of Miller Holding, a prominent Turkish multinational conglomerate founded by his grandfather in 1967...
#4 Everyone Walks Out of UN Before Netanyahu Says a Single Word - Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling for The New Republic, Sky News, Fox News, C14 News|EN, New York Post, and The Hill on X
Dozens of representatives from participating member countries staged a mass walkout at the United Nations Thursday, just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walked up to the podium to begin speaking. There are 193 countries in the United Nations General Assembly. It was the second year in a row that delegates protested Netanyahu’s appearance. As nearly everybody in the room stood up and filed out of the main hall, others remained but stood up and applauded the international protest...
#5 Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder Arrested at Anti-Netanyahu Protest in New York - The Guardian, Gillian Wiseman, Tarik/WearThePeace, The Independent, Soap Central, and The New Arab on X
Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and Hacks star Hannah Einbinder were among people detained by police in New York on Thursday as they moved in to break up a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu. Agence France-Presse footage shows NYPD officers cuffing Thelma & Louise star Sarandon at the demo in the city as the Israeli prime minister was readying to address the United Nations General Assembly...
#6 CNN, MS Now White House Reporters Denied Access to XI’s State Dinner Arrival - CNN, LaGistTV, Lady Q, NIGERIAN TRUMP, Rabindra., and Iqbal Qayyum on X
CNN reporters denied access: The White House denied two CNN journalists on Thursday evening from covering Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s arrival at the White House for a state dinner, after trying to tell the network which type of journalists could cover the event. MS NOW journalists were also denied access. Earlier in the day, CNN along with MS NOW and Politico were allowed back into the White House after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate press badges for the news outlets. The move came after the three outlets told federal Judge Timothy Kelly that their journalists were still denied entry in the morning despite his ruling. Overnight, Kelly ordered the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate their access after the outlets were banned from the premises last week by President Donald Trump...
#7 Intelligence From Chinese Groups Aiding in Iran’s Increasingly Effective Targeting of US Sites, Sources Say - CNN, Israel War Room, Phillips P. OBrien, Jonathan Cheng, and Oceanner on X
US assessments reveal Chinese geospatial data and intelligence have sharpened Iran's drone and missile strikes on American bases and ships in the Strait of Hormuz. This support enabled the deadly July attack in Jordan, where enhanced targeting proved beyond Iran's prior capabilities. Chinese and Russian technical help has upgraded Iranian guidance systems, amid ongoing risks to shipping and US military operations in the region. Neither Beijing nor Tehran has responded to the findings...#8 Florida Man Pleads Guilty in $500,000,000 COVID Test Fraud Scheme - Ireland Owens for The Daily Caller, Colin M. McDonald, National Fraud Inforcement Division, The Floridian, U.S. Attorney EDMI, and sampleyr on X
Hasan “Lucas” Seyhun, 45, of Miami, Florida, admitted guilt Wednesday to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud for his part in documenting more than $500 million in fake claims to government-backed health programs, according to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) news release. Seyhun previously served as the chief operating officer of New York-based Fast Lab Technologies (Fast Lab), which provided “no cost” COVID-19 tests during the pandemic that customers could purchase online via the company’s website, the DOJ said, citing court documents...#9 President Trump Appoints Secretary of State, National Security Advisor - Fernando Cervantes Jr. for USA TODAY, David J Harris Jr, Republicans/The Hill, Sebastian Gorka DrG, NEWSMAX, and Barry Moore for U.S. Senate on X
President Donald Trump commissioned Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his National Security Advisor during his trip to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. Secretary Rubio had already been serving in the role in an interim capacity. The last time one official held both of these roles was Henry Kissinger in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford from 1973 through 1975. President Trump had also given Secretary Rubio the acting responsibilities of National Archivist and administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last year. The president appointed Bradford Wilson as the chief administrator of the National Archives and Records Administration last month. The State Department officially took USAID operations and funding disbursement in the summer of 2025. President Trump said last year, “When I have a problem, I call up Marco. He gets it solved.”
#10 Former Secret Service Cybercrime Expert Weighs in on Privacy After Hackers Breach Stolen Flock Camera - Michael Sinkewicz for FOXBusiness, SECURITY Magazine, Massbear01, WIRED, Security Today, and Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability on X
A stolen Flock Safety license-plate camera yielded roughly 1.6 million images after hackers physically removed and reverse-engineered the device, but a former Secret Service cybercrime expert says the incident does not appear to have compromised Flock's broader cloud network. Jason Brown, director of customer advisory and counter-fraud lead at threat intelligence firm iCOUNTER, spent 25 years with the U.S. Secret Service and specialized in cybercrime.Brown told FOX Business that the distinction between accessing one physically stolen camera and breaching Flock's network is critical. "The biggest thing I keep hammering at home [is] that Flock was never compromised," Brown said. "So there's never been a large dump of information out of their network."
